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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not everybody has the money for an extra router.

No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the "has no internet access" group. It is one of those "Parental Control" things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.

That's what "configuration backups" are for. You've got some, don't you?

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